This is an excellent overview of native Andean artform the earliest perod through Chavin, Paracas, Nasca, Moche, Tiwanaku, Wari, to Incan. Covers architecture, textiles ,pottery and metallic arts. Looks at the main themes of religious and secular art in these various mediums. Text is accompanied by many black and white photographs, drawings and plans. Some photographs are in colour.

I found this work most interesting for the way it brings out the Andean worldview through the artistic artifacts remaining of those cultures. The work is also reasonably priced and up to date.

I was assigned a role in this play for school. This study book gave me all the background I needed to play the character better. My teacher (who is director of the play at school) had all the class read the description of the plot. It helped me know what to do on stage.

Miller's version of Ibsen's famous play sets it in language and circumstances that one can connect with better than the original - which was full of allusions to things and times which are arcane - but the original's power still remains and is enhanced by Miller. The theme comes up in the newspaper every month - a community threatened by pollution, a media crusading against power - until the power threatens to pull the plug on the media - "science" being portrayed as both the question and the answer - and friends, family and enemies in couplings and cabals to work against each other "for the common good". Read it with friends and see what it does to friendships.

This book has all the well known plays : All my sons Death of a salesman View from a bridge The Crucible

Each one of the plays has a plot which is totally different from others and each one of the plays have ingenuity. His plays deal with different emotions of people who feel they are right in their own way.

I have both read and performed this play and it is one of the greats. The realism in it scary. If you are doing research on the holocost READ THIS.

Brown County is a place I dearly love. Midwesterners flock to Brown County to enjoy the beauty of nature and of art. This book celebrates those artists and their spirit. Anyone who loveas art, nature, or spirited adventurers will appreciate this book. The book is beautiful and makes a wonderful gift(if you can bear to part with it).

As a new university administrator, I found that this book provided excellent historical context for my daily work, and a useful set of concepts for reconceiving administration as a kind of educational reform. By transcending the conventional idea of the academic bureaucrat as an intellectual untouchable, someone whose caste is unclean but sadly indispensable for getting rid of those tough administrative stains, AS IF LEARNING MATTERED helped me to think of my job as a local node in a larger network of reform stretching into the past and across national boundaries. In this sense, it seems to be an invaluable resource. I hope that in the future, the author will consider extending his analysis to the connection between bureaucracy and more overt forms of activism like union organizing and international labor movements.

Miller looks at commonplace books as sites of identity construction and gender formation. Miller recognizes their pedagogical value as both a mneumotechnical tool as well as a vehicle for enlightenment through self-reflexivity and critical thinking. Miller suggests through this 300+ page book many interesting concepts invlovling researching outside the canon in order to locate sources of identity and cultural stimulus. Also, according to Miller, commonplace books contain important historical information. For a more detailed report email me.

The Cross-sectional Atlas includes radiographic images of every possible cross section as well as a detailed illustrated pen & ink drawing of the same area for cross reference. These two images are together on the same page for easy reference, and the pictures are all of the highest quality-- easy to see. John Wiley & Sons has made a beautiful product. It really is a must for every radiologist or any physician who wants to be able to read MRIs and CTs on their own. (The book contains both MRI and CT image.)

Avenues of Love is a superb manual on how to launch, continue, and support an intergenerational program. This important initiative grows more vital as the family life, and extended family seemingly erodes. Auenues of love is a practical guide for educators, the community minded, or anyone wishing to contribute to the marriage of old and young.